Culture

News Hour: Olympic athlete Mo Farah, tennis star Andy Murray, actor Mark Rylance, comedian Ken Dodd and Kinks musician Ray Davies have been knighted in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honors List. Spice Girl and designer Victoria...

News Hour: Hrithik Roshan starrer Kaabil is under a month away for its release and the film is creating headlines with each passing day. Directed by Sanjay Gupta and produced by Rakesh Roshan, the film is...

News Hour: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Sing” loomed large at the multiplexes over the New Year’s holiday, racking up the biggest grosses and ringing out 2016 on a high note, reports Reuters. The...

News Hour: The famed Hollywood sign high in the hills over Los Angeles got a little higher on Sunday, when someone altered two of its letters to make it read “Hollyweed.” Police said unidentified thrill-seekers had...

News Hour: Three film production companies including Netflix are interested in making a warts-and-all screen dramatization of Nigel Farage’s insurgent Brexit campaign, according to an associate of Farage. This would be another extraordinary twist for Farage,...

News Hour: Mariah Carey is surely hoping that 2017 goes better than her 2016 ended. The pop music diva endured an embarrassing technical meltdown during a New Year’s Eve show witnessed by thousands in New York’s...

News Hour: Why does actor Benedict Cumberbatch cut such a dash as British literary detective Sherlock Holmes? That’s elementary, according to genealogy website Ancestry.com. Cumberbatch is distantly related to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created...

News Hour: The makers of xXx: Return of Xander Cage have released a new poster featuring Deepika Padukone & Vin Diesel. The movie is slated to release on 14th January in India, before anywhere else in...

News Hour: A joint memorial service and side-by-side burial are being planned for mother-and-daughter Hollywood stars Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, who died a day apart earlier this week in Los Angeles, the family said on...

News Hour: Allan Williams, the first manager of The Beatles who drove the band on their formative trip to Hamburg in 1960, has died at the age of 86, his old club announced. The Jacaranda Club...